Role & capabilities
- Underwater survey
- Environmental assessment
- Primary domain
- Underwater
- System type
- Autonomous underwater vehicle
- Developer / manufacturer
- Teledyne Gavia
- Origin / production countries
- Iceland
- Other names
- No additional names recorded
- Variants / configurations
- Not distinguished in reviewed sources
- Operators / programme customers
- Argeo — commercial customer
Evidence & current status
Unreported specifications and model-specific operator acceptance remain explicit uncertainties.
SeaRaptor is the larger deep-water member of Teledyne Gavia's underwater vehicle range. It is designed to carry several survey instruments and collect seabed and water-column data over extended missions. The manufacturer includes it in its defence portfolio for applications such as search, survey and infrastructure observation, while also documenting commercial customers. Those two uses should remain visible rather than treating a commercial purchase as naval acceptance.
A May 2021 announcement identifies two 6,000-metre vehicles procured by the Norwegian survey company Argeo. The stated configuration included synthetic-aperture sonar, multibeam and sub-bottom instruments, cameras and environmental sensors, supported by containerised handling equipment. That order provides a concrete customer and payload reference.
Later defence literature advertises a higher maximum endurance than the earlier Argeo announcement. This profile retains the Argeo baseline for quantified duration instead of combining later energy claims with an older vehicle fit. Battery arrangement, active sensor load and mission speed all matter. The public evidence supports a real product and customer procurement; a named naval operator and its exact SeaRaptor configuration remain unconfirmed here.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Configuration | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Hull / propulsion | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Dimensions | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Displacement / mass | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Payload | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Endurance | Argeo announcement: over 40 hours | 2021 lithium-ion configuration; do not substitute later maximum claims. Source |
| Range | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Speed | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Operating depth | Argeo ordered configuration: 6,000 m | Published baseline; configuration and mission conditions affect performance. Source |
| Sensors | Argeo fit: synthetic-aperture, multibeam and sub-bottom sonar; cameras; environmental sensors | Published baseline; configuration and mission conditions affect performance. Source |
| Communications / control | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Launch / deployment | Containerised launch and recovery equipment | Published baseline; configuration and mission conditions affect performance. Source |
Documented milestones
Argeo procurement announced
Teledyne announced two 6,000-metre SeaRaptor AUVs procured by Argeo.
Read the announcement
Publication history
- — Published reference update.
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